Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 9 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil North | BZN | SOUTHERN AMERICA |
| Brazil South | BZS | |
| Brazil Southeast | BZL | |
| Brazil West-Central | BZC | |
| Paraguay | PAR | |
| Austria | AUT | EUROPE |
| France | FRA | |
| Italy | ITA | |
| Switzerland | SWI |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 391 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -20.5 °C | -16.6 °C | -13.7 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 10.0 °C | 12.3 °C | 15.4 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,240 mm | 1,657 mm | 2,603 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 191 mm | 310 mm | 516 mm |
It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 391 research-grade observations of Aspilia foliacea that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 37 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Achillea ambigua Pollini
- Achillea birjuczensis Klokov
- Achillea compacta Lam.
- Achillea gerberi Willd.
- Achillea gerberi var. gerberi
- Achillea magna L.
- Achillea millefolium subsp. balearica Sennen
- Achillea millefolium subsp. compacta (Lam.) Bonnier & Layens
- Achillea nabelekii Heimerl
- Achillea nana L.
- Achillea nana var. conferta Heimerl
- Achillea nana var. laxiuscula Heimerl
- Achillea nana var. nana
- Achillea submillefolium Klokov & Krytzka
- Anomostephium angustifolium Gardner
- Anomostephium ellipticum DC.
- Anomostephium oblongifolium DC.
- Aspilia elegans (Gardner) Benth. & Hook.f.
- Aspilia elegans (Gardner) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks.
- Aspilia foliacea var. angustifolia (Gardner) Baker
- Aspilia foliacea var. foliacea
- Aspilia foliacea var. hirsuta (Gardner) Baker
- Aspilia foliacea var. oblonga Baker
- Aspilia glabra (Gardner) Benth. ex Baker
and 13 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.